TEISSERENC DE BORT, PIERRE EDMOND (1814-1892)

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TEISSERENC DE BORT, PIERRE EDMOND (1814-1892) , French writer and politician, was born at Chateauroux on the 17th of September 1814, and entered the civil service after the completion of his education at the tcole Polytechnique. He was a railway expert, becoming secretary-general of the Rail-way Commission established in 1842, government

commissioner

COMMISSIONER

to the authorized railway companies,

administrator

ADMINISTRATOR

of the Lyons-Mediterranean railway, and

commissioner

COMMISSIONER

to examine foreign railways. In 1846 he was returned to the Chamber of Deputies for Herault, but the revolution of 1848 drove him into private life, from which he only emerged after the down-fall of the Empire, when in February 1871 he was returned to the National Assembly. He supported the government of

Thiers

THIERS

and was minister of

agriculture

and commerce in 1872-73. He sat in the Left Centre, and steadily supported republican principles. He entered the Senate in 1876, and was minister of

agriculture

in the

Dufaure

DUFAURE, JULES ARMAND STANISLAS (1798-1881)

Ricard

RICARD, LOUIS GUSTAVE (1823-1873)

cabinet of that year, retaining his

portfolio

PORTFOLIO (shortened form of Porto folio, adapted from the Ital. portafogli, portare, to carry, and fogli, sheets or leaves of paper, Lat. folium, leaf)

in the Jules Simon ministry which fell on the 16th of May 1877. In 1878, when he joined the new

Dufaure

DUFAURE, JULES ARMAND STANISLAS (1798-1881)

cabinet, he opened the Paris exhibition of agriculture and manufactures, the

original

ORIGINAL

suggestion of which had been made by him during his 1876 ministry. In 1879 he was sent as

ambassador

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

to Vienna, whence he was next year recalled on the score of

health

HEALTH

. Two years later he re-entered the Senate, where he did good service to the cause of " Republican Defence " during the Boulangist agitation. He died in Paris on the 29th of July 1892. His works consist of discussions of railway policy from the technical and economic side.

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